Body found Thursday may be last missing Lake Erie boater

Body found Thursday in Lake Erie sent to Lucas County coroner

8:12 AM,
May 9, 2014

Hundreds of family, friends and community members release paper lanterns at an April 25 vigil for four boaters at Turtle Point Marina in Oak Harbor. A search for the last missing boater is underway today.

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Kristina Smith
Watchdog/enterprise reporter

Authorities believe the body they found Thursday in Lake Erie is the fourth fisherman who went missing three weeks ago, the coroner said.

Multiple agencies were searching the lake Wednesday and Thursday for the body of Andrew Rose, 33, of Maumee, said Chad German, Maumee Bay area supervisor for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Watercraft.

The U.S. Coast Guard recovered a body around 3:15 p.m. Thursday between the reef complex off Locust Point and West Sister Island, the same general area where the bodies of the three he was fishing with were found. ...